Carmel Cinardo (left) says her grandson Allan Haywood didn't always like sharing his tax-day birthday with her. But now that he's grown and his daughter, Faith, was born on that same day, Allan says the sharing is “interesting” and fun.

Less than four months ago, Jim Henderson, 57, lay on a hospital bed at USC University Hospital in Los Angeles and waited for a healthy replacement for his diseased heart. Weak and heavily medicated at the time, he remembers little of the 12-day ordeal as he awaited a new heart.